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On average, symptoms from E. coli O157:H7 infection develop within 3 to 4 days of eating contaminated food, with a range of 1 to 10 days. Symptoms usually include severe bloody diarrhea and abdominal cramps; sometimes the infection causes non-bloody diarrhea or no symptoms.
E. coli belongs to a group of bacteria informally known as  coliforms  that are found in the gastrointestinal tract of warm-blooded animals. E. coli normally colonizes an infant's gastrointestinal tract within 40 hours of birth, arriving with food or water or from the individuals handling the child.